duelling was a fashionable resort in contemporary Irish society, evidence of Daly engaging in it in adulthood is sparse. Daly's affair with Dorothea Jordan in 1782 seems to be the first recorded among the several carnal connections he is reputed to have had with his actresses. It is not apparent when that affair became widely known, but by January 1787 it was, though long spent, regarded as sufficiently substantial a relationship to justify inclusion of coupled portraits of "Mrs Tomboy" (Jordan, as Priscilla Tomboy in Bickerstaffe's The Romp) and "The Irish Manager" (Daly) in a series of engravings of celebrated lovers published in the Town and Country Magazine. The purported letters of Elizabeth Billington confess she "made a cuckold of her husband by committing adultery with Mr Daly", and soon after their publication The Secret History of the Green Room alleged that Daly had physically forced himself upon an unwilling Mrs Jordan and had lusted for Miss Romanzini (later the wife of Mrs Jordan's brother George Bland). Allegations also emerged of Daly romancing Mrs Baddeley and Miss Tweedale, and propositioning Mrs Inchbald and Mrs Siddons. Some of the allegations seem based on slight or ambiguous foundation, but their cumulative effect provides support for the application to Daly by Oxberry's Dramatic Biography of the general assertion that "Managers are, in their theatres, little better than Turks in their seraglios; at least as far as the indigence or immorality of their female performers will allow them to be so". In tandem with misconduct towards his players, Daly has been said to be "preoccupied with drinking and gambling" but, when alluding to his gambling, Clare Jerrold referred to it taking place during "his constant attendance at a Temperance Club where the only refreshment allowed was biscuits and water". In his suit against Magee, Daly took particular exception to the suggestion that he was a gambler, protesting this to be "false, scandalous and malicious", though there was later attributed to him "an extraordinary propensity for making wagers in reference to incidental matters, however unimportant". He has been credited with invention of the word "quiz" in consequence of one such wager. Death and family Daly died in Dublin's Lower Gardiner Street on 8 September 1813. By his wife he had numerous sons and daughters. One of his sons, a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, died in 1811 commanding a gun-boat which, when bombarding enemy positions